Our email addresses can be seen at the bottom of this page. If you have questions about this feature of Excel, or any other feature for that matter, please write to either of the co-founders os Internet4Classrooms. In the Select Data Source box, choose Switch Row/Column, as the thumbnail shows below. Right-click in the white area of the chart and choose Select Data. If my intention was to change the headings on the X-axis, that must be accomplished differently. The chart below was produced from the original data and then the transposed data. Perhaps you are thinking that I might have transposed the data in order to change the look of a chart produced from the data. This procedure is all about changing the look of the data. The data, as seen below, has been rearranged with a minimum of effort. Step Three (continued) - Click into the box beside Transpose and then click on the OK button. Step Three - Click on the down arrow under the Paste button on the Home tab, and select Paste Special

In my example I clicked into cell A8 to select that cell as the place where I wanted the data to begin. Step Two - Select the cell where you want to move the data. Step One - Copy the entire range of data, including the headers in row 1 and column 1. However, after looking at the data, I wished that I had organized it differently as below. Excel has a much better option - transpose the data.īelow is my worksheet as originally set up. The old, slow way to accomplish that might involve clicking and dragging data or even starting over. Transposing Rows and Columns in MS Excel - 2007Īfter entering data in a worksheet, I decided to switch the location of the headers contained in row 1 and column 1.

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